Chapter 437 Everyone Hates Mother-in-Law (5)
It took Shi Chu most of the day to carry his luggage back to his hometown in the countryside.
"Who are you? How dare you open someone else's lock!" Shi Chu just took out the key to open the door when a hoarse voice next to him questioned him vigilantly. Shi Chu turned around and saw that it was his neighbor, Aunt Wang.
"Auntie, it's me. I'm back." Shi Chu said as he opened the door.
Aunt Wang widened her eyes when she heard the familiar voice. She looked at Shi Chu from head to toe in shock for several times before she said in disbelief, "Sister Chen, it's you? You...how did you become so young? I can't recognize you!"
Chen Shichu smiled and said, "I'm not getting younger, I just changed my hairstyle and clothes."
Aunt Wang circled around Chen Shichu several times as if she was watching some kind of Western spectacle, exclaiming as she did so: "Life in the city is indeed much easier. Look at you, you've changed so much in just over a month. You look a dozen years younger."
"How can it be good? This month I have to take care of my daughter-in-law during her confinement, and also take care of my grandson. I've been busy with housework all day long. I was so busy that I finally got out of confinement, so I quickly escaped back home." Chen Shichu said.
"Why did you come back? You really don't know how to enjoy the good life you have! Why don't you just stay in the city and help your son take care of his grandson? You have to come back and suffer all by yourself, how stupid!" Aunt Wang really thought it was stupid for Chen Shichu not to stay in the city to take care of his grandson.
Chen Shichu smiled bitterly and said, "Auntie, you don't understand. I had to do everything there. I got up at five o'clock and never stopped. I had to make breakfast for my son first, then make milk powder for my grandson, feed him, change his diaper, and then wash clothes for the whole family. My daughter-in-law got up and I had to make her breakfast. Then I had to go to the market to buy vegetables and come back to cook... If the child cried, I had to comfort him, feed him, change his diaper... After lunch, I had to clear the table and wash the dishes. In the afternoon, I had to take the child for a walk, buy vegetables and cook... All day long, I was spinning like a top, so tired that I couldn't even straighten my waist. I've never been so tired even when I was farming in the countryside. I really can't stand it."
Chen Shichu complained: "Look at me, I've lost more than ten pounds in just one month. It's all because of tiredness!" She said this without any psychological burden, and she really didn't lie, the original owner was really tired and thin.
When Aunt Wang heard her say this, she immediately felt a little sympathetic towards her: "It seems like it's not easy for you either."
"Yes, it's not that easy. If you are slow to coax the child and let him cry, your daughter-in-law will scold you for being lazy. Tell me, I went there to help them, but they didn't appreciate it and made me angry. They treated me as a free babysitter. How could I bear this? So I just came back!"
"Forget it, you are still young and you can live comfortably in the village by yourself." Aunt Wang said a few words and went back to her home.
Chen Shichu cleaned the house thoroughly, threw away some unnecessary things and kept only the things she liked. After this tidying up, the two-story house immediately looked spacious and bright.
The original owner built this house more than ten years ago. It is ordinary, no different from other villagers' houses. Fortunately, it is built in the village, so it is warm in winter and cool in summer. After some tidying up, it can also be used as a small villa in the country.
You should know that this house will be demolished in 20 years, and a large amount of demolition compensation will be exchanged. But now, this house completely belongs to the original owner, because Liu Zongqiang's household registration was moved to the city when he was admitted to university, and the original owner's husband died, and only the original owner's name is on the household registration book, so as long as Chen Shichu does not die in 20 years, even if it is demolished, this house has nothing to do with Liu Zongqiang.
After all, he would be living there himself, so Chen Shichu planned to make some modifications, separating the toilet and bathroom, and connecting the three rooms on the second floor to form a bedroom and a study. The first floor would have a living room, kitchen, and a guest room.
There is no need for any complicated procedures to renovate a house in the countryside. You just need to find someone, give them the drawings and ask them to make the changes.
But before that, Chen Shichu had to have enough money for her to spend.
So after a few days, she dug up a wild ginseng that was a hundred years old from the mountain. Ginseng is not a rare thing nowadays, but it is cultivated. Wild ginseng is still rare, so Chen Shichu sold this old ginseng at a good price.
When Chen Shichu was going down the mountain, he accidentally "revealed" the fact that he had dug up wild ginseng to other people, so the next day there were many more people going to the mountain to dig ginseng.
Now that the source of her money was clear, Chen Shichu stopped taking things from outside and focused on renovating her house.
Unlike Chen Shichu's carefree life in her hometown, Liu Zongqiang and Zhao Shuwen in the city had a hard time after she left. Although they expected that they would be busy for a long time after Chen Shichu left, they never expected that the discomfort would be much stronger than they had imagined.
First of all, since there was no one to do the housework at home, Zhao Shuwen could no longer be as leisurely as when Chen Shichu was still around. She had to get up and clean the house, do laundry and cook.
Then, there was no one to take care of the child, so she had to do housework while taking care of the child. She had to do it because Liu Zongqiang had to go to work. If she didn't do it, there would be no one to do the housework.
After just three days, Zhao Shuwen felt like she was living a life worse than death. Why did she have to wash clothes and cook every day? Why was the child so difficult to take care of?! Zhao Shuwen, who had been well-maintained during the confinement period, only fed the baby at night for three days, coaxed the baby for three days, and did housework for three days, and her face became haggard, with dark circles and red bloodshot eyes.
"Liu Zongqiang! I can't stand it anymore, let's hire a nanny." Zhao Shuwen finally couldn't help it and said to Liu Zongqiang who was coming home from get off work.
"Hire a nanny? Do we have money?" Liu Zongqiang asked mercilessly upon hearing this.
"Wouldn't it be enough if I just save some money? I'm alone at home, doing housework and taking care of the children, and I never have a rest. I can't stand it!" Although Zhao Shuwen is a child from an ordinary family, she has never suffered any hardship since childhood. The biggest hardship was that she had to get up early to go to school when she was in school, and she couldn't get up. Before she had her own experience, she had no idea that it would be so hard after giving birth to a child.
"My mom can bear it, why can't you?" Liu Zongqiang asked immediately, "Aren't you doing what my mom did before? My mom is even harder than you. In addition to taking care of the children and doing housework, she also has to take care of you, a pregnant woman, but my mom has never complained."
Don't get me wrong, Liu Zongqiang said this not because he understood his mother's hard work, but just wanted to use these words to shut Zhao Shuwen up.
But this is enough to prove his cruelty. He clearly knew how hard his mother worked, but he just turned a blind eye to it, simply because he was the beneficiary. Now that his mother is gone, he wants to use this matter to morally blackmail another woman in the family - his wife.
(End of this chapter)
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